Suzhou's new landmark "Oriental gate" global lighting design activities

The east gate of the East Gate (English: The Gate of the Orient) is located in Suzhou City, Jiangsu province China a 278 meter skyscraper. Suzhou East Gate Industrial Park, the core of Twin Towers planning, it represents not only the new gate of Suzhou, but also the world to see China's new door. At the end of this splendid and graceful landmark is located in the Suzhou Industrial Park CBD axis, East Xinggang street and glittering Jinji Lake, West Park Management Committee building and century finance building. The skyscraper has a unique structure, the whole building is at the top of the Petronas Twin Towers Petronas Twin Towers, but a bow or be made one, which is a door shape. This 66 story building will be completed in 2007, will be more than the current Suzhou new center to become the tallest building in Suzhou and Jiangsu. East Gate area of about 24000 square meters, the total construction area of about 460 thousand square meters, the building height of about 300 meters, a total investment of about 4 billion 500 million yuan. Cooperative design of Oriental gate by the British RMJM architectural design company, Hongkong Arup and East China Architectural Design Institute completed. The east gate is a commercial, The Residence Hotel, intelligent office buildings and platinum five star hotels and other functions in one, in order to meet the growing market demand. The door of the East is the hope that the building of the enterprise to create a vibrant, commercial prosperity of the city's new hot spots in Suzhou, and as a new leader in the development of the leading CBD area growing prosperity.

The architectural design of East Gate Based on the day alone thick location, and the owners of the business the east gate of the conception, designers boldly created the 302 meter tall conjoined door shaped Twin Towers. It takes CBD as the center of the axis of the whole building basic symmetry axis, the axis is sitting in the gate of the Forbidden City, and create a new portal and the expression of Suzhou East Gate metaphor, its unique form of CBD axis to the Jinji lake.

East Gate in the facade treatment contains China of fine, building curtain wall is different from the surface scaly smooth curtain wall in general, it is a huge tower provides exquisite detail and not fancy. These fish can be used to produce a variety of changes in the transparency of the wall to meet the different requirements of line of sight and sunshine, the curtain wall to add more meaning. The eastern side of the glass curtain wall from the top of a 278 meter tower diarrhea RUPU, more from the east gate of the momentum of the. South north side elevation is significantly different from that using sunshade curtain wall, cornice, dark grey aluminum, have prominent concave effect. Clear glass and other materials and details of the treatment to create a more subtle facade, and frank and the other side of the facade of mutual support, and the entire facade has two sides of yin and yang. The top of the glass dome with a smooth curve, the wall will be natural and smooth connection. Style Introduction

To coordinate with Suzhou with the orthodoxy culture of ancient history of landscape architecture Chinese, design selection of black white and gray color as the color of the building, echoing with the classical gardens of the Daiwabai wall. The ingenious combination of portal building image inspired by the traditional vase doors and gates, and through the simple geometric curve vividly displayed.

Activities: China lighting network as a platform for the global collection of appropriate lighting design program to improve the quality of the project, so that the world's attention.

Organizer: China Lighting Network

Suzhou qianning home Co. Ltd.

Event: Suzhou new landmark, the East Gate owners and related units commissioned by China Lighting Network for the National Recruitment lighting design.

Submission deadline: November 5, 2010

Design principles

1, the principle of people-oriented, must fully consider the effect of internal household cannot.

2, green lighting principles: must fully consider the problem of energy saving and environmental protection, through methods such as not only see light, prevent the glare of light pollution generated.

, 3 local principle: the design should fully study Suzhou's culture, history, geography, climate, economy etc.. Taking into account the surrounding environment, improve identifiability.

, 4 principles: the style is elegant and dignified, not too fancy. Reflect the unique of "East Gate" construction, highlighting things like silk veil wall elegant effect.

5, cost control: 500~1000 million.

Control 6, direction (not fussy): in the light of arch.

7, with intelligent control flexibility, there are a variety of models (usually weekends and major holidays) and various scenes (daytime, evening and night) adjustable.

design requirement

1, lighting design should comply with the relevant city planning and architectural design requirements and the relevant technical documents and Standard Specification for electric lighting.

Install and run 2, all lighting equipment shall comply with the relevant electrical design and construction specification, to ensure the safety of.

3, taking into account the daytime landscape lighting design, landscape lighting effects to prevent effect of the building during the day.

, 4 lamp light source should be selected for future maintenance.

Selection method

1, all meet the selection requirements of the work will be announced in the Chinese lighting network, and according to the users click rate of a preliminary selection of thirty entries.

2, users click rate, the choice of the owners, the proportion of the weight of 50%, select the top ten.

, 3 experts, selected the top three. Team composed of experts: the owner of Suzhou Ning Ning Property Co., Ltd. 3 ~ 4, Suzhou Park Planning Bureau leadership of the 2